Must Love Horses

photo credit: Jose Rojas
Many people talk about animals and a few others are owners. I love horses.
I find them to have great powers. They are strong
fast and even wild. Here is a photo of a young black and white horse in
a stable in New York. The Bronx to exact. To view or order prints: http://joserojasphoto.com/

Motorcycle Heaven From Yonkers

Yonkers Police 2010 motorcycles some of the best motorcycles and police motorcycles riders in Westchester county of New York. You never seem a motorcycles so detail. It's a pleasure just looking at it. photo: Jose Rojas 2011
to view more or purchase prints. Go to http://joserojasphoto.com/

Jose Rojas Video

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New York City at Dawn

Landscape Photography

This image was taken late afternoon on the eastside part of New York City. Using a Nikon d70s with an 18-200 Sigma lens.
photo was capture by photographer Jose Rojas. To view more of his images go to http://joserojasphoto.com/

Honda Civic Hatchback

Honda civic photograph by; Jose Rojas http://wp.me/p17xiM-1y

Retouch headshot using Lightroom

Some people struggle to find a way to make a portrait look soft. I found a nice trick to softening my portrait in Adobe lightroom. In lightroom Click on the brush tool, follow by going below and clicking on Exposure and go to the menu that says Soften skin and you will be ready to start working. Brush around the face areas that you want soft, while avoiding the eyes and lips of course. To view if you missed a spot click on the black dot and this will show like a mask of the areas brushed by you. Continue to do this until you are satisfy. Once your done you may want to consider the level of the Soft Skin Effect you like for this photo I used about 52% percent. But you can choose whatever you think is right.

Lame MTV VMAs leaves viewers wanting more

Ok, so a group of us watched the MTV VMAs together and found ourselves wondering is MTV a thing of the past. And the answered could be that there is a possibility MTV is out of touch with the new viewers. They pretty much have forgotten the older
viewers. I would say that 50% of the artist present are lost or naive. With their poor dressing, communication and lots of unwanted
baggage. MTV continues to attack the artist the viewers and fan love and purchase their music. A show which supposed to be rewarding good craftsmanship cannot attack its artist. No wonder so many talented artist skip this crappy show. Which the VMAs
has become. The poorly produce show needs to fire some of the staff. Including the person who suggested it the host. They should also consider having show base on attacking the musicians separately from the VMAs. It makes me sick to an artist get
awarded for some crappy poorly edited dance move videos. Perhaps MTV needs to sent their producers to watch a couple of Broadway shows to see what singing and dancing is all about. The VMAs was the weakest poorly produce show ever. They should thank Lady Gaga, The innocent miss America Taylor Swift and of course Mr. Kanye West. These Artist saved you and kept the viewers watching. I rate the VMAs 1 star out of 5.

Jose Rojas Sonic Boom Inspire Art images

The need to create art has become a passion for New York
artist Jose Rojas. Whether taking a photo per day
or doing some 30 second sketches on a journal has become
the norm. He is inspire by everything finding
beauty is a hobby that if one looks hard enough can bring
happiness to ones soul. In his recent pieces Sonic Boom inspire
images he uses striking color with with sense of shape to make
he relations. Jose Rojas is a new comer to the art community and
continues toimprove his technique. To view Jose Rojas
work you can visit his website:

http://www.joserojasphoto.com

Lighting portrait 101

To light a portrait a lot of us immediately think what type of light can i used and the simple answer is whatever is available. That's all you need, because that's what you have. Now don't get me wrong with a chunk of cash you can get quality professional strobes that can run you over $5,000 on a basic kit and if your field demands that type
equipment get it, practice and wait for the bookings to come in. Now if you are like most of us that want to be there but can't a simple kit will do. You can even improvise
and visit a hardware store, go online and use the web to find millions of how to sites.
remember one thing for all we know you might create the next invention. One suggestion don't burn the house down. Now back to the topic of lighting. Use whatever you have have I remember doing and entire house party with no lighting at all and guest what I got some pretty good pictures. Of course many occasion you can do without. Show up to a magazine photo meeting and tell them you don't use light, you will never find work in that town or any other town. If you wan to make and impression learn how to use lighting properly. I bet most people don't know or don't care what type of lighting you are going to use. Show with a camera flash and some customers will be happy with that. The bottom line is to practice don't invest a lot, buy simple and grow from there and don't forget practice, practice and more practice that's how you will become better. LIGHTING SUGGESTION 101 COMING SOON. For more information visit http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/

to view some of my images

New Graffiti photos of 2010

View all my new graffiti images and enjoy this great art form. This photograph was taken by photo journalist Jose Rojas of New York. Photo was capture using a Nikon body with a 80-200mm 2.8 Nikon lens.
All photos were taking in the Bronx, New york in the South Bronx in the Hunts Point area. This images were made by some of the best Graffiti artist in New York.

To view more photos click on link below: http://joserojasphoto.com/

Slideshow

Jose Rojas Panorama 2010

Help for Haiti

Pet photography by: Jose Rojas 2010
Let's open our hearts to those in need. Our brother our neighbors need a helping hand. Let's all donate a little something. Together we can help. So I urge you to visit http://joserojasphoto.com/ and make a donation or purchase the above image or some of my work and I will contribute 30% of the sale. So act now and tell all your friend. It's time to help.

Jose Rojas Photo slideshow

New Slide show up and running successfully at http://joserojasphoto.com

here is picture of Old Yankee stadium one of the images in the show.

New Painting "The Princess By Jose Rojas"

The artist Jose Rojas has posted his most recent paint creation name
" The princess"done with his crafty colorful skill. This pieces was done
using Acrylic on a 16 x 20 portrait. The painting has the power to grab
the audience with the unique style use. It contains brilliant
colors that would complement any residence looking to uplift
the spirit. This painting will surely catch the eyes of many experience
art collector's. Jose Rojas has fresh outlook that will surely satisfy the
art community, and is a artist many recommend to keep following.
To see more work by JOSE ROJAS go to: http://www.joserojas.photo.com
or contact by email: Rojasjose@verizon.net

Jose Rojas photo on Twitter

You can now follow Jose Rojas on twitter. His name is Joserojasphoto. to View his website Http://www.joserojasphoto.com

Jose Rojas Excellent reviews

Jose Rojas has done it again, proving himself to be on the path of greatness. His images and paintings has grace the home of thousands of art lovers worldwide in recent months. His website Joserojasphoto.com is being graded at the top of its class. Jose Rojas is an artist who cares about his community and when a local river needed attention he photographed the pollution destroying the river, while raising awareness to clean it up. You can view these images on his website. He urges others to do the same. If you see your community falling apart is your responsibility to put it back together. To get more info visit his website. "change is coming, start you change now"

Website update

Jose Rojas has updated his website. Take a look http://www.joserojasphoto.com
leave your comments and suggestions. Jose Rojas is available for your event. book now.

Art Exhibition of Jose Rojas

The Exquisite Art of Jose Rojas can now be seen at http://www.joserojasPhoto.com
be the first to take a peek and choose a few art pieces to improve your great Art
Collection. Jose Rojas is a proud member of The Bluedoor Art Organization base in Westchester. New York. For more info. Rojasjose@Verizon.net

The Fall of Baseball
By: Jose Rojas

Since I can remember the game of baseball has been my secret love affair.
I always have dedicated myself to the game and its players. But just
like a person struggling to survive and been abuse in every kind
imaginable way, here comes baseball and joins that elite group of
savvy marketing and publishing know it all group to do the same.
To target the point on how I and many others began to feel this way,
Baseball has allowed its players to party with illegal products to improved
not the game nor the players. But to simply improve a failing system overcome
with personal greed. After making record breaking amounts of
money in attendance, bonus, alcohol and advertising its now
time to look away a find the weakness link to prove their innocence.
Lets take for example, the notion of insulting the past, by breaking
those weak records that are also insulting to what we as a free nation stand
and fought for. Baseball asked its player to be productive. To
increase performance, but at the same time rewarding them with
huge amount of cash. You can ask anyone of the fair practice used
and I personally think its unfair. We have leaders such as politicians
who have shower in these wrongful practices. All one have to do
its simple, apologize to everyone and be forgiven. One thing require,
a few things require for forgiveness, are as follows, be American, loose the
accent, vent at your knees and once again be American. When one breaks
a rule, the rule is broken. Therefore, no apology nor excuse shall be grant
it. A recent case(S) comes to mind ARod vs. Manny or just being Manny or
simple us. ARod's allegation of cheating and admitting his wrongful doing
with no punishment its a sin. Yet lets remember ARod is one of them. Now
Us our Manny, our look, our celebration. He commits a act of foolishness
and its rightfully suspended. Does he deserve to be punish of course. Many
might say he has not done enough to vent at the knees therefore his guilty.
He is Manny with the look of the people punished in the past and
punishable in the future.